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crotchet, curiosity, eccentricity, erraticism, idiosyncrasy, individualism, kink, mannerism, oddity, peculiarity, quiddity, quip, singularity, tic, trick, twist
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Everyone has their little quirks. wearing red shoes every day is just one of her quirksRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
In a schedule quirk, the Sox had a day off in Denver on Monday while the Rockies beat the Atlanta Braves, 3-1, at Coors Field. — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, "Rick Porcello believes his command has improved lately," 26 Aug. 2019 Violence in the movie is not so much a lark of the ruling élite as a quirk of one fraught family struggling, as any does, to impart its odd traditions to the next generation. — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, "“Ready or Not,” a Screwball Take on the Hide-And-Seek Slasher Film," 24 Aug. 2019 There’s just one exception: The Handmaid’s Tale might still receive a few nominations, thanks to a quirk of Emmy rules. — Emily Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, "The 2019 Emmys drama race is wide open, thanks (in part) to Game of Thrones," 15 July 2019 Through a quirk of fate, Formula E had yet to have a wet race in four seasons, but that streak continued. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, "Formula E ends its season—and an era—in Brooklyn," 18 July 2018 That’s especially true thanks to a particular quirk of human behavior. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, "Is Amazon Prime Still Worth It?," 11 May 2018 This quirk of nature, which the ACE team is studying, is called Peto’s Paradox, named for Richard Peto, a British epidemiologist. — Doug Johnson, Quartz, "Elephants and whales could give us the cure for cancer—unless we keep killing them," 14 Aug. 2019 For those uninitiated to the quirks of football scheduling, those rehearsal no-go zones synch with 95 percent of college and pro football games. — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, "How this football star transitioned into an opera singer," 11 July 2019 That’s because under the quirks of the state payroll system, members of the Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate are paid at the beginning of each month for that month’s coming work. — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, "Four found dead in Slavic Village: The Wake Up for Wednesday, July 10, 2019," 10 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'quirk.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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